Feb 2018 ‘Negotiating Defence in Belfast and Derry’ Do we need Defending? The History, Tactics and Modern Relevance of Antifascist, Antiracist and Antisectarian Resistance in the UK. Violence Studies Oxford, University of Oxford [invited paper]

April 2017: Sacred Boundaries: the search for peace in Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine, CUNY Graduate Center New York. A public conversation with Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund, moderated by Prof Peter Beinart

April 2017: ‘Nation, State and Territory on the Island of Ireland’. Dept of Anthropology and Sociology, Fordham University, New York [invited lecture]

April 2017: ‘Researching the Irish Troubles: Politics of interviewing in a post-conflict society’. Dept of History, Queen’s College CUNY [invited lecture]

March 2017: Speaker in Roundtable on The Northern Ireland Assembly Election: where to from here? Moore Institute NUI Galway.

December 2016: ‘The Rules of Hijacking: coercion and consent in the “urban statelets” of the IRA’. Workshop on Violence and Control in Civil Wars. Hamburg Institute for Social Research [invited paper].

October 2016: ‘Power and Politics in the Bloody Sunday Inquiry’. Irish Society, History and Culture: 100 years after 1916. EUI/SNS/UniFi, Florence. [invited plenary with Eamonn McCann]

October 2016: ‘Armed activism as the enactment of a collective identity. the case of the Provisional IRA between 1969 and 1972’ (with Lorenzo Bosi). Irish Society, History and Culture: 100 years after 1916. EUI/SNS/UniFi, Florence.

October 2015: ‘Organisational Foundations of Military Power: the Irish Republican Army and the Army of the Serbian Republic in Bosnia compared’ (with Siniša Malešević). PSAI Annual Conference, Cork.

April 2015: ‘Civil War or War of Civilisations? Territorial perspectives on the causes of violent conflict’. The Clash of Civilisations in the 21st Century? IUC, Dubrovnik.

November 2014: ”Micro-mobilization into the Provisional IRA’ (with Lorenzo Bosi). International workshop on micro-level perspectives on political violence, EUI Florence. Joint workshop of COSMOS (EUI Centre for Research on Social Movements) and the ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence.

October 2014: ‘Still a Country? Nation, State and Territory on the Island of Ireland’. PSAI Annual Conference, Galway.

September 2014: ‘Organisational foundations of military power: comparing the Irish Republican Army and the Army of the Serbian Republic in Bosnia’ (with Sinisa Malesevic), ECPR General Conference, Glasgow.

September 2014: ‘Reversing the mechanisms? A relational analysis of the termination of the IRA campaign’. ECPR General Conference, Glasgow.

June 2014: ‘a great disorderly Tangle of Lines’. Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland, London Irish Studies Seminar Symposium, King’s College London.

March 2012 ‘The Longest Negotiation: British policy, IRA strategy and the making of the Northern Ireland peace settlement. QUB School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Social Divisions and Conflict Cluster seminar [Invited Seminar].

October 2010: ‘Nationalism, Negotiation and the Divisibility of Territory’. Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, DIT, Dublin.

September 2010: ‘Nationalism, Negotiation and the Divisibility of Territory’. Nationalism and Organised Violence Conference, NUI Galway Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence in association with the Political Studies Association of Ireland specialist group on Peace and Conflict.

July 2010: ‘IRA Ceasefire 1975: A missed opportunity for peace?’ Reassessing the 1970s. Centre for Contemporary British History, UCL, London.

Sept. 2007. Nation and Neighbourhood in the North of Ireland. QUB ‘Beyond the Nation’ conference, Queen’s University, Belfast.

Sept. 2007. Coimbra Group Conference – Networking across Borders and Frontiers. A multidisciplinary Approach to demarcation and Connectedness in European Culture and Society. University of Graz, Austria [Invited Paper].

May 2007. The Contact: understanding a communication ‘pipe’ between the British government and the IRA. Track Two to Peace? Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions & the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. USC Annenberg School of Communication, Los Angeles [Invited Paper].

April 2007. ‘Between Nation and Neighbourhood’. Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism annual conference, LSE, London.

Mar 2007 A Botched State or Triumph of Terrorism? The Northern Ireland Troubles Contesting History series, School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin debate [Invited Lecture].

January 2007 ‘Bloody Sunday’. Public talk at NUI, Galway

August 2006. ‘Conflict, territory and online boundaries: a case-study from Belfast’. Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers annual conference, London.

June 2006. First Galway conference of Irish Studies. Conflict, communication and online boundaries.